‘An increasing tendency to use UAPA as the chosen legal weapon’, finds PUCL’s data-based study
The average number of cases registered under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (‘UAPA’) per year by the National Investigation Agency (‘NIA’) during the United Progressive Alliance regime during its second term in power from 2009 till 2014 is 13. In contrast, during the National Democratic Alliance regime, from May 2014 till present, the average number of cases registered per year is 34.